Photo 4: The Roosevelts with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1940.

(Courtesy of Corbis, Inc.)

Questions for Photo 4

1. Study each of the five people in the photograph carefully and thoroughly. Do you think this is a posed photograph? Why or why not?

2. Photo 4 was taken during the June 1940 visit to Springwood by King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth. How would photographs like this help to humanize the British royal family? What world events made support of the U.S. public critical to Great Britain's future? Was the visit as spontaneous as the photo suggests?

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